The femur is your thigh bone, running from your knee to your hip. It’s a difficult bone to break, but if you do, you’ll likely need surgery. Which is the smallest organ in the human body?

Recently, scientists at Stanford University began to wonder why identical lab mice, bred with the same DNA and brought up in ...

The human body is an amazing, curious, and disgusting thing. At any given moment, millions of tiny lifeforms are making their way across your body—both inside and out.

Your eyes and your brain too. Scientists call it the "bomb spike" (or "bomb pulse") – and for more than half a century its signature has been present inside the human body. In the 1950s, there were so ...

While the human body is able to withstand high temperatures, ... Here’s what happens inside your body when it gets too hot. How the body handles heat.

They now claim to have transplanted a genetically engineered pig kidney that has survived inside a human body for six weeks and counting—the longest period yet. It’s likely that larger ...

Bridget Benelam, a nutritionist with the British Nutrition Foundation, said it was important to get protein from different ...

The human body's natural recycling system also switches on at this point, he says, and a process called autophagy begins. Autophagy is when your body cleans out damaged cell parts.

Inside your body, aging unfolds at remarkably different rates. ... represent one of the first and potentially most practical takeaways from the broader and often wildly hyped science of human aging.